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Ecclesiastes 9:7
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Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.
Goe, eate thy bread with ioy, & drinke thy wine with a cheerefull heart: for God nowe accepteth thy workes.
Go, eat your bread with pleasure, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already accepted your works.
Go your way -- eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
Go, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.
So go and eat your food now and enjoy it. Drink your wine and be happy. It is all right with God if you do these things.
Go your way, eat your bread with joy and drink your wine with a cheerful heart [if you are righteous, wise, and in the hands of God]; for God has already approved and accepted your works.
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.
Be happy and enjoy eating and drinking! God decided long ago that this is what you should do.
So go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, for God has already accepted your deeds.
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.
Goe thy way, eate thy bread with ioy, and drinke thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy workes.
Go, eat thy bread with mirth, and drink thy wine with a joyful heart; for now God has favourably accepted thy works.
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already approved your works:
Go—eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart! For God already has approved your deeds.
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God now is pleased with your works.
So go eat your food and enjoy it; drink your wine and be happy, because that is what God wants you to do.
Go, eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, because God has already approved your works.
So go ahead. Eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, for God approves of this!
Go and eat your bread in happiness. Drink your wine with a happy heart. For God has already been pleased with your works.
Go, eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has long ago approved what you do.
Go thy way - eat, with gladness, thy food, and drink, with a happy heart, thy wine, - when already God is well pleased with thy works.
Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God.
Come now, eat your bread with joy and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God is pleased with your works.
Go ahead—eat your food and be happy; drink your wine and be cheerful. It's all right with God.
Go then, eat your bread in happiness, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works.
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Go thou thy way then, eate thy bread with ioy, & drinke thy wine with a glad heart, for thy workes please god:
Therfor go thou, iust man, and ete thi breed in gladnesse, and drynke thi wiyn with ioie; for thi werkis plesen God.
Go, eat with joy thy bread, and drink with a glad heart thy wine, for already hath God been pleased with thy works.
Go your way -- eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
Go, eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already approved what you do.
Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.
Go thou yi waye then, eate thy bred with ioye, & drynke yi wyne wt gladnesse, for thy workes please God.
Seize life! Eat bread with gusto, Drink wine with a robust heart. Oh yes—God takes pleasure in your pleasure! Dress festively every morning. Don't skimp on colors and scarves. Relish life with the spouse you love Each and every day of your precarious life. Each day is God's gift. It's all you get in exchange For the hard work of staying alive. Make the most of each one! Whatever turns up, grab it and do it. And heartily! This is your last and only chance at it, For there's neither work to do nor thoughts to think In the company of the dead, where you're most certainly headed.
Go then, eat your bread in happiness and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works.
Go then, eat your bread in gladness and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Go: Genesis 12:19, Mark 7:29, John 4:50
eat: Ecclesiastes 2:24-26, Ecclesiastes 3:12, Ecclesiastes 3:13, Ecclesiastes 5:18, Ecclesiastes 8:15, Ecclesiastes 10:19, Deuteronomy 12:7, Deuteronomy 12:12, Deuteronomy 16:14, Deuteronomy 16:15, 1 Kings 8:66, 1 Chronicles 16:1-3, 1 Chronicles 29:21-23, 2 Chronicles 30:23-27, Nehemiah 8:10-12
for: Genesis 4:4, Genesis 4:5, Exodus 24:8-11, Luke 11:41, Acts 10:35
Reciprocal: Genesis 29:1 - Jacob Genesis 43:34 - were merry Exodus 24:11 - did eat Numbers 6:20 - and after Deuteronomy 14:26 - rejoice Ruth 3:7 - his heart 1 Samuel 1:18 - went her 2 Samuel 13:28 - heart is merry 1 Kings 18:41 - Get 1 Chronicles 29:22 - eat and drink Job 42:9 - Job Psalms 104:15 - oil to make his Proverbs 17:22 - merry Ecclesiastes 3:22 - nothing Isaiah 24:9 - General Jeremiah 22:15 - eat Jeremiah 31:16 - for Jeremiah 35:5 - Drink Matthew 8:13 - Go Matthew 9:2 - be Mark 5:34 - go Luke 7:50 - go Luke 18:14 - went John 2:11 - beginning Acts 2:46 - did Acts 9:19 - when Romans 14:18 - is 1 Corinthians 7:31 - use
Cross-References
Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth."
So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. Genesis 1:28">[fn]
These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Go thy way,.... Thou righteous man, as Jarchi paraphrases it; and indeed epicures and voluptuous persons have no need of the following exhortation, and the reason annexed is not suitable to them; but the whole agrees better with religious persons, who under distressing views of Providence, and from gloomy and melancholy apprehensions of things, and mistaken notions of mortification, deny themselves the free and lawful use of the good things of life; and seeing there is no enjoyment of them in the grave, and after death, therefore let the following advice be taken, than which of worldly things nothing is better for a man to do;
eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; which includes all things necessary and convenient, and which should be used and enjoyed freely and cheerfully; not barely for refreshment, but recreation; not for necessity only, but for pleasure; yet with moderation, not to excess; and with thankfulness to God; and the rather joy and mirth should mix with these things, since to a good man they are in love. It may be observed that it is said "thy bread [and] thy wine", thine own and not another's; what is got by labour, and in an honest way, and not by rapine and oppression, as Alshech observes; what God in his providence gives, our daily food, what is convenient for us, or is our portion and allotment. The Targum interprets it figuratively of the joys of heaven;
"Solomon said, by a spirit of prophecy from the Lord, the Lord of the world will say to all the righteous, in the face of everyone, eat thy bread with joy, which is laid up for thee, for thy bread which thou hast given to the poor and needy that were hungry; and drink thy wine with a good heart, which is laid up for thee in paradise, for the wine which thou hast mingled for the poor and needy that were thirsty;''
see Matthew 25:34;
for God now accepteth thy works; both the persons of righteous and good men are accepted of God in Christ, and their works done in faith and love, and with a view to his glory; and since they are acceptable in his sight, as appears by his blessing on their labours, and bestowing the good things of life upon them, so it is well pleasing in his sight to make a free and cheerful use of them.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Read these six verses connectedly, in order to arrive at the meaning of the writer; and compare Ecclesiastes 2:1-12.
After the description Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 of the portionless condition of the dead, the next thought which occurs is that the man who is prosperous and active should simply enjoy his portion all through this life Ecclesiastes 9:7-10; and then Ecclesiastes 9:11-12 follows the correcting thought (see Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 note), introduced as usual Ecclesiastes 2:12; Ecclesiastes 4:1, Ecclesiastes 4:7 by “I returned,” namely, that the course of events is disposed and regulated by another will than that of man.
The person addressed is one whose life of labor is already pleasing to God, and who bears visible tokens of God’s favor.
Ecclesiastes 9:7
Now accepteth - Rather: “already has pleasure in.” Joy (the marginal reference note) is regarded as a sign of the approbation and favor of God.
Ecclesiastes 9:8
White garments and perfume are simply an expressive sign of joy.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
The works which we carry on here with the combined energies of body and soul come to an end in the hour of death, when the soul enters a new sphere of existence, and body and soul cease to act together. Compare John 9:4.
Device - See Ecclesiastes 7:25 note.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
Chance - Or, “incident,” that which comes to us from without, one of the external events described in Ecclesiastes 3:0. Compare Ecclesiastes 2:14 note.
Ecclesiastes 9:12
Time - See Ecclesiastes 3:1 ff.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ecclesiastes 9:7. Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy — Do not vex and perplex yourselves with the dispensations and mysteries of Providence; enjoy the blessings which God has given you, and live to his glory; and then God will accept your works.
